“Rasrani Winter Park is professionally designed and built. It has specially designed framing with its walls Sapisol thermal insulated within double skin, with treated spruce timber on both sides with battens, IB4 waterproofing & Philippe Starck designed Aluminium metal cladding,” he said.

It is not clear how much the project costs. Muizzu says it is being funded through the tourism sector.

The winter park will feature the Maldives’ second ice-rink. The first opened earlier this year at the Jumeira Vittaveli.

It has an ice-skating area of 87 square metres, views to the ocean and was inaugurated in March by Olympic gold medallist Evgeni Plushenko.

The luxury resort says the synthetic ice rink functions entirely without water and at a zero-energy level.

President Abdulla Yameen will be at Rasrani Bageecha as part of an Eid meet and greet marking the end of Ramadan.